Cak-seat



W. M. HENDERSON. COMBINED REVERSIBLE CAR SEAT AND SLEEPING 00mm.

No. 25,116. Patented A1 1g.1 6,1859.

W1 messes menial.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM M. HENDERSON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CAR-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,116, dated August 16, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM M. HENDER- SON, of Baltimore city, in theState of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seatsfor Railroad-Cars, the same being reversible, so as to face towardeither end of the car, and also inclinable in either direction, so as tobe convertible into sleeping-couches; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation representing the car seat; Fig. 2, thechange produced to make a sleeping couch.

The seat (A) is cushioned on both sides, and jointed to the skeletonframe B, at C. The arms, D, with the connecting lever, E, E, are jointedthereto at F, F.

G forms the front leg or support when used as a seat, and is held inposition by the bolt H, fitting in bolt-holes let into the floor. Theback is in two pieces, the lower portion I, swinging between theskeleton frame on the center C, with a tenon joint top and bottom, toreceive on either end the corresponding mortise in the upper part J soas to raise or lower the height of the back, for either night or day usein reclining or sitting.

In changing from a chair into a sleeping couch, the bolt H, iswithdrawn; the foot-- board K, turned down; and the back distended untilthe bolt-heads F, are stopped by the catches L,the lower arms acting aslevers to extend the front support into a leg rest. In reversing, theupper part of the back is disengaged, and the seat made to turn entirelyover on the central pivot M, the front support or leg rest actingequally well in either posit-ion of the seat.

What I claim as of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentis 1. The construction of a railway reclining chair or couch securelyattached to the floor of the car, with the whole chair reversible so asto face either end of the car substantially as described.

2. The mode of varying the height of the back of the chair by making itin two pieces, and suspending the lower portion substantially asdescribed.

3. In combination with a chair reversible as aforesaid, I claim thedouble acting footboard, single reversing leg rest, and means forextending it, by the action of the arms of the chair, substantially asherein described.

WILLIAM M. HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN B. RAY, DANIEL E. M ERS,

